Lee Hon Lung v. Dulles

WIIG, District Judge.

Plaintiff, Lee Hon Lung, armed with a decision of a board of special inquiry made in 1924, admitting him as a citizen of the United States, brought this action against the Secretary of State for a judgment declaring him to be a citizen of this country.1 In April, 1957, the Department of State denied his application for a passport on the ground that he was not a national of the United States.

This Court has jurisdiction of the case.

Plaintiff appealed from an adverse judgment in the first trial of this action, and the Court of Appeals reversed and remanded with instructions…